OFFICIAL -OllGAN -OF .THE PltOIIIBlTIOKISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA.-.
VOL. IV.
GrREENSBDKO,. N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 1886..
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THERE'S A TIME THAT IS COMING
" Tune : Sweet By and By.
There's a time tliat is coming, at last,
O 1 welcome that beautiful day", - :
-When Rum Traffic's power will be past,
- And Christians shall" vote'as they pray
" " Chorus. . - . T
In the sweet by-and-by, - . ; ' , . '
: r O, welcome that beautif ul day ! ; ..
In the sweet by-and-by, i. ; : : v
When christians shall vote as they pray.
JThe lire shall go out in the still, . t
And the worm that has nursed it be dead,
Its ruins give place to- the mill,
' .To feed a-1 the people with bread. -
The poorhouse all tenantless stand, r
When the dram-shop shall fester no more;
Th e soil of our glorious land !
When the church and the state shall rise,
In the'strength of their virtue and might,-
And lead by a voice from the skies,
Shall dare, every where to do right I
DR. TALM AGE'S' SERMON.
THE BLASPHEMY ABROAD !
LET OOD-
arise; let his
scattebed."
ENEMIES BE
xjext : tne nrst verse or tne sixty
. eighth Psalm.. "Let God arise; let His
enemies be scattered." -
- A procession was formed to carry the
ark or sacred box, which,, thou g ; only
3 feetfl inches in lengths ahl 4 feet"3
inches in height ' and depth, was the
sympol of God's presence. As the
leaders of : the procession ! lifted this
ornamented and brilliant box by two
golden poles ran through four golden
rings, and started for Mount Zion: all
the people chanted the . battle hymn of J
my textr "Let-God arise; let His ene-'
mies be scattered." ; - f .j
The Cameronians, . of . Scotland, out
raged by- James -I, who forced upon
them religions forms that were -offend
sive, and by the terrible persecution of
Drummond, Dalziel, and Turner and
by the oppressive laws of Charles I and
Charles II, were driven to proclaim
war against tyrants, and Went forth to
fight for religious liberty; .and the
mountain heather became red "with
carnage, and at Bothwell Bridge and
Aird's Moss and Drumclog the battle
hymn and the battle shout of those
glorious old Scotchmen was the text I
1. .1 tT i . 1 i- XT."
iiuvt: ciioseu -ajcl vjuh suise, ici 111s
- enemies be scattered." .
.What a whirlwind of -power was Oli
ver Cromwell, and - how with his sol
dier's name, "The Ironsides," he went
. from victory to victory I Opposing
armies melted as he looked at them. He
dismissed parliament as - easily as a
schoolmaster a school. He pointed his
finger at Berkeley Castle, and ' it was
taken. He ordered Lord Hop ton, the
general to dismount, ' and he dismount-
ed.; oee jromwen marcmng on witn
his army, " and hear the battle cry of
"The Ironsides," loud as .a storm, and
solemn as a death knell, standards reel
ing before it, and cavalry horses going
Lank on their . haunches, and armies
flying, at Marestdn Moore, at Wincepy
. Field, at Nasebv, at -.Bridgewater, and
1 Dartmouth.' 'Let God arise; let His
enemies be scattered! - -
So YOUr aee my test is not . like a com
plimentary and tasseled sword that you
see sometimes hung up in a . parlor, a
sword that was never ; in : battle, and
onlv was to be used on general training
dav. lmt more like some weapon care
fully hung up in -your home, telling
its, story ot Chspultepec, Cerro Gordo,
- and Cherubusco, and Thatcher's Run,
" and Malvern Hill; for my text hangs
.. . ... . 1 . " M
.- in r.n. ncnuiure uruiui v. wuiuk ox uic
holy wars of : 3,000 years, in whieh it
- .is bee4 Ciltril out as keen ; and
ittighty as' when: David first unsheathed
it. . - It seems to me what " in" the Church
of God. and in all styles of reformatory
- work; wemost need now is . a battle
cry. We raise our "little standard and
ut an it the name of some man who
finlv a few year ago began to live, and
--in a few vears will- cease to 'live. We
go into contest against the armies of
inianitv depending too much on human
agencies. We use for a battle, cry the
- name of some brave Chilian r.ef ofriner,
" int 'fep'a TiUe tbl rfQier dies, or
es old, or loses hisoourage, and then
we take another battle cry, and this
time, perhaps, fwe put ;th& 'name of
some one who ; plays - Arnold - and sells
out to the enemy. What we want for a
. battle cry is the name' of some leader
wh6 wiU never, betray qs, nd will never
- tjfect haye I for brave men and
Qmeu, b,ut 'if we . are; gqing. to get the
nil alnnor the linewe, must nut
rind first" v: We must: take, the hint of
fae (ii4eqn4tes, ; whq wiped out the
"Redouin Arabs, commonlyf called Mid-
oni'tAa! - Tliese Gideonites had a glori-
ona leae? in Gideon, bijfc whftt was the
. battle cpy 'witli wMoh they-flung-their
enemies into the worst defeat - into
'the sword of the Lord aiid of
Gideon." Put God first, whoever you
nnt second. If the army of therAmeri-
can revolution " are to free America, it
must be "the sword, of the Lord and
of Washinsrton."- If the Germans want
'o win the daySedan, af - it ; must be
Uthe. .sword 'l-; tHa Iq? ftncJ: Yori
- oJtke." Wateriqq was won -ior tne
RngUsb, becane not only , the armed
men at the front bvtt: the worshipers in
- - the cathedrals at the rear were crying:
' 'The sword of the. Lord and Welling-
- fmi " Tho "Methodists have" gone in
triumph across nation after nation .with
- .h crv : 'The sw ord of the Lprd-"and
- "of ' . Wesley." 'The- Presbyterians have
Tone from victory to victory - with the
" nrv: "The sword of the Lord: and" of
.Tohn Kno." The Baptists have con
qtiered mifiiong afleV millions for Christ
' ..with the cry: , ?'The sword of the Lord
and of Judson.". -The , American Epis-
- copalians have won tneir mighty way
- and of Bishop Mcllvaine." The victory
. . . ... t . . fi .1 . Tl J. "
. is-to tnose wno pui jtou arm. jjul
wewant a battle cry suited to all sects
ofrelicioniKts, onrt to all Jands, mom
nate-as the battle cry of Christendom fiend has -despoiled ' whole -streets o
m tne approacnmg- Armagedaon . the
words of my -text, sounded before the
ark as -it was carried to - Mount Zion-
"Let God -arise; let. His enemies be
scattered" j . ' " j" . . .
As far .as our finite" mind can judge.
it seems about time ' for ' God' to rise.
Does it not 'seem to you that the abom
inations of' this earth have gone far
enough? - Was tnere ever,, a time when
sin was so i defiant? Were there ever
before so many fists lifted toward God,
telling Him to come on - if he" dare?
Look at the blasphemy : abrdadt ' What
towering -profanity!--: Would it be pos
sible for any one to calculate the num
bers of times that the name'of Almighty
God and of; Jesus Christ are every day
taken irrevently on the lips? , So com
mon has blasphemy v become that the
public mind ; and - public .ear. have got
used to it, and & - blasphemer goes up
and. down this country in his lectures
defying the- plain law , against blas
phemy, and there is not a mayor in
America that has . baekbone enough to
interfere with him save rone, and that
the mayor of Toronto. Profane swear
ing is as much forbidden by the law
as theft, or arson, or murder; yet who
executes it? ; Profanity is worse than
theft, orarson or murder, . for these
crimes are attacks on humanity that
is an attack on Gd." ,
This country is pre-eminent for blas
phemy. - A man traveling in Russia
was supposed t to be ; a - clergyman.
"Why do you take me to be a clergy
man?" said the mam ."Oh," said, the
Russian, ' 'all other Americans .swear. "
The crime is multiplying in intensity.
God very often shows what He thinks
of .it, but for the most part the "fatality
is hushed up. A few summers ago,
among the Adirondacks, aI met . the
funeral procession; of a man who, two
days before, had fallen under a flash of
lightning while boasting, after a Sun
day of work in the fields, that he had
cheated God out of one day anyhow;
and the man who worked with him on
tne same-Sabbath is still living, a help
lessinvalid under the. same flash. On
the road from Margate to Ramsgate,
England; you may find a rough monu
ment ' with the inscription : A' boy
was struek'dead here while in the act
of swearing." f
lears ago in a .Pittsburg prison two
men were talking about the Bible and
Christianity, and one of them, - Thomp
son by name, applied to Jesus Christ a :
very low and villainous epithet, .and as
he was -uttering it he fell. A physician
was called,; bnt no help could be given.
After a day lying with "distended pu
pils and palsied tongue, he passed out
of this world. In a cemetery in Sul
livan county, . in this state, are eight
headstones' in a liiie and '. all alike, and
Hhese are the facts: In 1S61 diphtheria
raged in the village,' and a physician
was remarkably successful" in curing
his patients. So confident did he be
come that he , boasted, that; ixo . case ef
diphtheria' could stand before him,' and
f
good homes in all our cities. - Fathers,
brothers, sons, on the funeral pyre of
strong drink ! ' Fasten - tighter the vie-:
timl Stir "up the flames ti Pile on the
corpses! More- men, women, and chil-'
dren. for the sacrifice! ' Let us ; have
whole generations "on fire of evil habit-;
and at the sound", of ,the -cornet, flute,
harp,-, sackbut .psaltery, and duclci
mer; let all the people fall down and
worship king alcohol, or.'you shall be
cast into the-"fiery furnace under some
political platform! ' -I
indict this evil as the fratricide, the
patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide,
the regicide of the century. Yet under
what innocent and delusive and mirth
ful names alcoholism deceives' the peo
ple. ' It is a ' 'cordial ;" it - is 'bitters ;"
ti is an V'eye-opener;" -it is an ?'appe-
tizer; it is a "digester; :it is -aa "m
vigorator;" "it is ai 'settler it ? is a
' 'night-cap. VV hv don t they put on
the " right labels "essence of perdi
tion," "conscience- stupefier," "five
drachms of heartache, ' ' 'tears . of or
phanage,"; "blood -of souls,"'. i.. 'scabs
of ani eternal leprosy 4venom of the
worm that never dies?"' Only once in
a while is there anything in the title of
liquors to even hint their atrocity, as
m the case of sour - mash. - -That I see
advertised all over it." It : is an honest
name, and any one can understand it.
Sour mash! That is,. it makes a man's
disposition sour, and his associations
sour, and his prospects sour; and then
it is good to mash .his" body, and mash
his soul, "and mash his business, and
mash his ! family. i. Sour mashL' One
honest nama at last for t an intoxicant!
But, through lving labels of many of
the apothecaries' shops,- good people
who are only a " little ! undertone in
health, and wanting , of "some invigor-ation,-
-have unwittingly 1 got on ': their
tongue" the fangs of this cobra, that
stings to death so large--a ratio of the
human race. : .' i . r . .
" Others are ruined - by the common
and' all-destructive i habit '-."of 'treating
customers. i:And it is a treat on their
coming to town, and. a j treat while the
bargaining progresses, "and a treat when
the purchasers made and a treat as he
leaves town.; Others, to drown their
troubles, submerge; themselves ; with
this worse trouble. : Oh, the world is
battered and bruised andtbhisted with
this growing evil! It is more and more
entrenched; and fortified,. They have
millions of 1 dollars -subscribed to mar
shal and advance- the - aleoholie forces
xney nominate ana elect and govern
the vast'majority of the officeholders of
this country. On their side they have
enlisted the mightiest political power
of the centuries, And behind them
stand all the rnvrmidohs of the neiher
world, Satantic, and Apolloynic and
diabolic, i It is beyond all human effort
to overthrow this bastle ; of decanters
or capture this Gibraltar of runi jugs:
And while I anrrove of all human
agencies of; reform, ? I f would 1 utterly
despair if we had nothing else." But
-finally: defied" Almighty God to produce! what cheers me-is. that l our best troops
a case of diphtheria that he .could not
cure. . His youngest child soon after
took the disease and died, and one child
after another tin til : all the eight bad
died of diphtheria.' .The blasphemer
challenged. Almighty God and God ac
cepted the' challenge. ; - "
But I come later down and give you a
fact that is proved by soores of wit
nesses. This last August of 1886 a man
got provoked at the continued drought
and the ruin of his crops, and in the
presence of. his neighbors he cursed
God, saying that he would cut his heart
ont if he would " come, calling Him a
liar and a coward, and flashing a knife,
And while; he was speaking his lower
iaw drooped, smoke issued from
mouth and nostrils, and the heat of his
body was so intense it lrove back those
who would come near. . bcores of peo
ple have visited - the scene and eaw the
blasphemer - in awful process of ex
piring, i - -
-. Do not think that because God has
been-silent in your case, Oh, profane
swearer ! that he is dead; Is there
are-yet to come. : j X)iirj chief artillery
is in reserve. Our greatest commander
has not yet fully taken the field. , ; If all
hell is on their side, all Heaven is on
our side. Now, - "Let God arise; and
let His enemies be scattered." - ' d - -Then
look at the impurities of these
great cities. Ever and anon there are
in- the newspapers explosions of social
life that make the story oi Sodom quite
respectable; for such things, Christ
says, twere more tolerable, for Sodom
and Gomori'ah. than for the Choranzins
and Bethsaidas of greater light. ; It is
no unusual thing in our cities to see
men in high position with two or thxeei
! families, : : or refined . ladies willing sol
emnly, to marry the very swma of Bocie
ty if they.be wealthy. Brooklyn,-whose
streets fifteen' years "ago were almost
free from all sign of the socfal evil, now
night by night rivaling tipper Broad
way in its flamboyant wickedness. The
Bible all aflame ? with denunciation
against an impure life but many of the
American , ministry uttering .not; one
point-blank word against this iniquitv
man voices, human talents, are not suf
ficient. I bepin to look . up. - I listen
for: 'artillery rumbling -down'the : sap
phire bouleYfirds ofj heaven.- I -wnich
to see if in. the morning light there be
not the -flash-descending scimeters.
Ohj for , God. Does ; it :not seem time'
for His appearance? i Is- it not time for
all lands to cry out, , ?'Let God arise,
and let His:enemies be scattered' v
I got a letter a few days-ago - asking
me if I did not think that r the earthquake1-
in Charleston: was' the- divine
chastisement on that city for its" sins. -That
letter T.answer now by saying that
if all our American " cities got - all the
punishment .they deserve, for their' hor
rible impurities the "eaith, would long
ago -have cracked, open into crevices
transcontinental, and taken down all
our cities;: aridJlrooklyn andTfew York-j
T - . - - . f. .. . t, i. . . .. . r
woiuu ;uave gone so iar usiaer. mat tne
tip of our church,, spires would be 500
feet below 'the surface. ? It is - of the
Lord's ,, mercies - that we have not -been
consumed. - . ' ,
Not only are the affairs of this world
so a-twist, a-jangle, and - racked that
there seems a need-of the Divine "ap
pearance," but ' there is another .reason.
Have you not ticed that in the histo
ry of this planet God turns a leaf about
every JA, 000 vears. God turned a leaf
and this world .was fitted for-: human
residence..- About 2,000 more years
passed along and God turned, another
leaf, and it was the -deluge..; About 2,
000 more years passed on and it- was
the appearance of Christ. Almost 2, -000
more years have passed by, and He
will probably soon turn another leaf.-
What it will be I-cannot say.' It may
be the demolition of all these monstros
ities of turpitu"de and the establishment
of righteousness m-all-the earth.- He.
can doit, and He will do it. I- am as
confident as : if it were already accom
plished. - How easily He ean. do it my
text suggests. It does not askGod to
strike with' His right hand,- or stamp
with His foot,: or hurl a thunderbolt of
His power, but just to get from the
throne on which He . sits. Only that
will be necessary:-"Let God arise!"
It will be.no exertion of omnipotence.
It will be no bending ! or bracing for a
mighty ; lift. It will . be no sending
down the sky of the white horse cavalry
of heaven or rumbling .war; chariots.
He will only rise. Now He is sitting in
the majesty, and patience of -His ; reign.
He is - from . His" throne watching the
mustering of all the forces of blasphe
my,, and drunkeness, and impurity, and
frandand Sabbath-breaking, and when
tney nave aone tneu worst ana Are
most securely organized He will bestir
himself and say:. "My. enemies have de
fied me long enough, and their cup of
iniquity is full. , I have riven them all
opportunity for repentance 1-This dis
pensation of patience is endedj -and the
faith of the good shall be tried no long
er." ' - - . . -
. lAnd.nov -God f brgins - to" tw&'- and
what mountains , give way under His
right- foot,, and what"" continents sink
under 'His left foot; I know not; but
standing in the full height, and "radi
ance, and grandeur of His - nature, He
looks this-way, and that, and how His
enemies are scattered! Blasphemers,
white and dumb, reel" down to their
doum; 'and those who have-trafficked in
that- which destroys - the bodies and
souls of men and ; families will fly with
cut foot on the down grade of - broken
decanters; and the polluters of society
that did their bad "work with large for
tunes and high social sphere will over
take in their desceht the degraded rab
ble of underground city life as they
tumble over the eternal precipices; and
the world shall .be left clear- and clean
for ; the . friends of humanity and the
worshipers of Almighty God. . The last
thorn plucked off. the : world will be
colors in Joseph's coat. ,
But we must-hafe a union. at.v the
ballot box somehow. - How can! we
get it ? Light on this quej-y , may : be
obtained by going back just a genera
tion. Salmon' P. Chase used to be
a Democrat Charles Sumner : used
to ;-be a Whig. Suppose Mr. Sumner
had : said to" Mr. Chase : "We are
both : foes X)l the slave . traffic." Its
power is rapidly increasing, and those
of , us who die its , foes must unite on
some basis, and act together. . Kowi
Mr.. Chaser just step over here andiCountv Prohibition Committee.:
n ' r :" . , ' . .... -.-.-J ' s " ' -m-'': ......
contradictory attitudes and the'mher
ent weakness growing out of them.
To this view the country is rapidly
coming. Let us be "patient and work.
Sincerity guided by light will bring
us success. - - - ' "
-i .. -. For the " rohibitionist.
A WHISKEY MENACE."
The following letter is copied" ver-i
batim, from the Mdliodist Protest of
Sept. 25,1886. " - " . '
B. M. Davenport. Chairman . Cook
well unite in my party without any
more trouble.?' Or suppose Mr.: Chase
had said to Mrr. Sumner :'fI believe
with you ' the-, slave power . must be
throttled, and we' must unite some-
how to, do it - Kow,' Mr. -Sumner,
come"right over here ahd we'll unite."
If those men had-talked like that till
doomsday the foes of si avery ; never
would have - been united. , But each
said to the: other : : lWe must unite
until this question is settled.". Let us
leave our old parties, - meet half-way
in -a new organizationand, dropping
our contentions on other "matters - for
the time being, act together ; until this
matter is settled; and settled -righV
,When they did that the foes of slavery
became, united,' and : every man ;who
went to the ballot box to vote asinst
slavery knew just'what ticket to vote,
and just what ticket to vote, and just
what ticket the other foes of slavery
would vote. - ; - .'. . "
, The foes of . the saloon must be
united before, the saloon ', shall be
crushed. General Fisk used to be a
Republican and Colonel Cheves used
to be a. -Democrat; Suppose the
General had said to the Colonel:
"Come over into my party. Colonel,
and we'll unite here without trouble."
.What woud tbe Colonel have thought
of his candor and honesty ? But they
have bothagreed to leave their old
parties and to drop the old party issues
until this issue is settled, and settled
right- " The foes of the' saloon are in
both the old parties, North and South.
j ,JFpneed,tor have' them; all acting m
unison, not merely at the prayer meet
ing, or at" the mass-meeting, hut at
he ballot-box. ' . hen we go, to the
polls we want to know, for certain
which ticket to vote, and whose names
should be oh it ' The foesJ of the
saloon, therefore, must unite in a new
party; that puts m its own tickets
and -stands bv them. . ..There's the
only feasible plan for union.
have broken up our.busihess in Kan
sas, Iowa,--Maine, Rhode . Island
Georgia, ."and other, -parts of " the
country, and you are now -working
like mad devil3to drive us out of
business in , .Illinois. - ? Perhaps you
think you'll! some time close- up the
saloonsin Chicago. We want to tell
you before that is done every d ' ' d
prohibition fanatic will die as -Had
dock did. We will kill every preach
er, burn every church, T massacre
every v member of every temperance
society, and all the- praying. women,
before we will surrender our liberty
or give up; our lawful business. ' If
we 'pay our license to help support
the school, the city authorities -are
bound to protect us. If ; they don'a
doit we will protect ourselves, . if it l wish I had time "to : tell you more-
takes a cruel war to' do it: " Wc want ves a great deal that my own eyes
to'- tell you that unless i you resign naXe seen 01 the Sreafc rum rum is
your jpositi'on in the County - Prohi- working in this city, and, as I said to
bition Committee, and quit organiz- my: companion on yesterday in walk
ing: Prohibition' Clubs in" Chicago, inff one of the thronged streets of
you have hot got many more days to rum &lt and grog-shops, ; I believe
live,. We must make an examnle tueie are nunareas oi women m
of somebody here in" Chicago,! to1 - let York whb would be opposed to
the cranks know that we mean-busi- PniDiuon, - simply because they
"THE THREE STAGES OF
: form:"
nothing now in the peculiar.' feeling oh lest 4 some old libertine throw up his
vour tongue, or-nothing in the numb
nesa of y oxiv brain that indicates that
God may 'come to .avenge, your blas
phemies," or is already avenging them?
But these eases I have noticed I be
lieve are only a few cases where there
are hundreds. Families keep them sfciH
to avoid f tte . UfATlW ponepicmty.
Physicians suppress them through
professional eonhaence. it ; is a very,
very, very long- roll that : contains the
names off those who died with blas
phemies " on their lips ; and ; still the
crime rolls on, up through parlor up
through chandeliersj wtL, lights .all
ablate, fiijd th0,Tigh" the pictured cor
ridor's o club rooms, &c, out through
busv exchanges, where oath ", meets
oath, and down through all the.haunts
of sin, . mingling with" the TfttUQg dice
and orackms ' mlaaixi tialls, and tne
laughter of hex who hath forgotten the
covenant ;Of - her Goaj ana rouna tne
city,' and round the oontment, ana
round the- earth "ft seething, boiling
surge flinsa its hot -spray into the face
of a long-suffering God. And the ship
captain damns hia ;,erew, and the mer
. i . i i i . - i.i . a
cuant aamns nia ciexits,uu. me luaaier
builder damns his men,- and the' hack
driver damns' nis horse, and the traveler
damns the stone that bruises: his foot,
or the mud that soils his - shoes, or the
defective time:piece that gets ; him tpo
late to the p4 ; t?ain,t I rpaign pro
fane swearing anq. ; Riftsunmy
names; fo? th.e same, thing, as being qne
of , the gigahp crimes of this land, ana
for its extirpation; it does seem as if it
were about time for God to-arise. -;
"Then look fa moment at the evil of
tdruhkennees. Whether you live m
Brooklyn, pr New York or Chicago or
Gincinnatti; or Savannah; ox Boston, or
in any of, the cities of this land, count
up the saloons 6n that street as c.Qrn:
oared with the saloons yye years J ago:
and see they are growing far, out . of
orouortion to the increase of the popu
lation. ir You people, who are so precise
sLnA rftTticular lest tnere snouia oe
some imprudence or rashness jn attack-
me the'rum traffic will have your son
some -night pitched r into ;y our . front
door dead drunk, or your daughter
will ocvma nome wnn ner - &niiureu ue-
church 'pew. Machinery organized in
all the cities of the; United States 'and
Canada by which to put yearly into the
grinding mill of this iniquity thousands
of the unsuspecting of the country farm
hoHBfes, one pTOonresa confessing last
week in the courts tnat :sne naa sup-
plied the infernal market with 150 souls
in six months. :r Oh, - for 500 Pall Mall
Gazettes in Americano swing open the
door of this lazar-house of social cor
ruption! t Exposure - must come before
extirpatiioi. J :'';:; -- ; :.':;"
"While the city van carries the; scum
of this sinironi the prison to the police
court, morning by morning, full
time, if we do not whit high American
life to bpaoine lik.e that of the court of
Lquis 3V, to put millionaire lotharios
and Pompadours of your btQWft-stbne
palaces into a -van -of, papular ; indigna
tion, a.nd Ariye ihem out of respectable
associations. What prospect of social
purification can there he. as long as at
summer I watering places it is usual to
see a young woman of excellent rearing
stand and simper, and giggle, and roll
uoSher ;eves sidewavs -before one -of
those first-class satyrs of fashionable
life, and on the ballfroom floor join him
in the dance, ; the maternal- chaperon
meanwhile beaming fronj e, waU on
left, a ; blooming - rose on the bosom of
that Christ who came to gardenize it.
This earth that stood, snarling with its
tigerish passion, thrusting out its rag
ing, claws,- shall lie down, a lamb at the
feet of the ; .Lamb of Uod, ; who took
away the sins of the; world. . ? ! ' ;
' And' now the,' beat thing I can. wish
for you, and the ,hest thing I can wish
for myself ia that we may be found His
warm, and undisguised; and enthusias
tic friends in that hour when God shall
rise and His enemies shall be scattered.
WHERE SHALL WE UNITE ?
It is conceded on all; hands that
the one thing needful to fight success
fully against the saloon power is to
unite the foes of the saloon somewhere
and in some way. They must be
united not merely 364 days "out of
the year, but on election -day as" well
It is easy enough to find a basis of
union for. them on other days, but
when they go tathe ballot box they
have to vote for men. . Here is a weak
point "in the. non-partisan plan
union. . Those wno advocate it say.
1'We can all unite-at once on a platform
denouncing the "saloon -and: saying
nothing. about polities." So we can
until we. start to the polls. Then we
must vote this ticket or that; vote for
the scene! MatcliS ft madein-heaven, m or .fhose men;- an tnft fl011.
they i&ay ach matches,; for ;thej , V i'ii i
brimstone 'indicates the opposite re
gion- : : : :-;i :;;: ; ;;.; T ' ' v .. ; : --
'lhe evil ia overshadowing all our cit-
. ... i n
ies., some the immoralities are can
ed peccadillos, gallantries, - eccentrici
ties, and relegated to the realms of joc
ularity,; and few efforts are being made
against f it. God bless the "White
Cross" ' movement;'.; as it is. called," the
excellent and ' talented J . Miss Trances
AVillard, ils ablest advocate on this side
the sea, an -organization .making a
mighty assault on this evil. ' God for-
.ward the tracts on .this subiect distrib
uted by the jeligioua- tract societies of
the viand, i '- God "help parents' in the
great -work they am doing in trying tol
start their children with pure.m'iiieiples
God help all 'lesiaiators' in their at-
1 tempt inhibit this crime." - ' ,1
f- But, is this all? ,Then"it is onlv a
question of time-when the last vestige
RE,
as Hopkins, Mead, Lathrop and - oth
ers had not been spent in vain, but
is even now beginning to show fgr it-;
self in the outgrowth of such a party
as now exists in old Guilford, and
other counties of the state,and spread
ing in every direction. ' The question
was asked mex Are - you working for
.Local or .National Prohibition ?" I
answered emphatically, , National,
mainly.,- Different persons arose
afterwards and expressed' great satis
faction on hearing such assurances
oi progress the cause is making South,
and ..they say the "dram shop must
go" IJext ; Saturday " at 4 p. -m. a
very, large and handsome prohibition
banner is to be stretched accross
Ll4th Street, from their headquarters, "
which is to hang till the end sought,
is accomplished. I had invitations
to attend some assembly distric
meetings this week, but business en-
gagements prevented my so doing.
They have nominated a candidate for -Mayor,
for .President of the board of
Alderman, forRegister, and the dis
tricts are nominating -for Assembly
candidates. Rest - assured, prohibi
tionists of North Carolina, the work
is moving forward,; and thousands of
money is being pledged for the work.
I feel more encouraged : and deter
mined in the work than ever before.
made a living out of if - '
. . . Yours truly,
- - - W. S. Moore.
New York, Oct. 6th; 1886.
OF
ness. we nave you mar kea-ior r our
first victim. ' If you don't want to be
sent after Haddock : let up on the
temperance business at - once,- and
attend to your hotel. , In -earnest.
" ' . SALooiT-Keepers.
Has this 4 threat; a parallel ? Kill
ever v TTeac h er. everv m am her ot
- ' ....... -I ' I . 11 . II CV. " ... 1 1 I I .
everv "temoerance societv. -and' all -' aifler up tne. money that tne
praying women?-.What wholesale working-classes have 'spent' for rum.
rro-n or,vi ioorv, t Tr, U-Uriiig tne last thirty years,- ana l
RUM THE WORST ENEMY 1
THE WORKING-CLASSES.
i . l .1 - . ' i .
to make a hartlesa Turk or Arab HU1 uuim lu every .wuiKingmau
- .: , " 1 .1 1. 1 n 1 ' 1 '
blush! Is not this positive evidence11- ' auu mX uut Ior mm a Samen
that lhe. saloon keepers are murderers and elotne hls sons m broadcloth and
in. heart with an exception now and h!s "daughters in silks, and stand -at
then, it may be and that they will ms iront aoor a Punching span ot
commit cold blood murder," if - it is sorrels or. ba and secure Nm a
policy ot lile insurance so that the
a
needed" to carry on this, business?
tEvery , prohibition. . ianatic .: die as
Haddock' did.". How did he- die ?
Shot bv a concealed murderer ! - Is
i present home may be well maintained
! after he is dead. . The " most persist-
ent, - most overpowering enemy of the
Under the above head, a writer in
The Voice, discusses the subiect in
he following manner : ;
Prohibition.-like , any other great
undamental reform in Government,
must pass three . stages : Firstt com
ing.td an issue that is, dividing the
government-making forces, the voters,
squarely on the. issue, which period
may be said" to end when the; refor
ers get "where they can. set about
doing their work get possession of
the offices. . The second stage may be
denominated : the ; '.policy-making"
period, during which the reformers j-"
will.be "making the necessary Consti
tutional and legislative provisions to
carry out their purposed The third
stage may be called, the enforcing-or
effecting period. . . - :
Many sincere temperance men ! do
not comprehend the : full "extent ' of
the work we have; oh hand. They
say, "Get a Constitutional Amendment,
and then ice are done-with if'( ivKere-
- - I 1 1 J i .. i . t .
hot this the key to their " murderous .wuiKuig-cuwBeB is iiiiuxiuauug liquor.
i;,v?. To lillpT.d bnrrr. not. bold-Lt 1S the anarchist of the centuries,
lv. but bv sneak and stealth. " Ts.it and has ooycotted and is now boycot-
not hitfh time for 'every one who tinS 'ie bod7 ancl mind and soul of
i A'-: .I a Z. U i American , labor. - It is to it a worse
stand ? Not on the fehce, but ' on foe than monopoly and worse than
the side of God' and home and. peace! associated capital. It annually swin-
and - order. . Murd irers ' rule this dles industry out of a large percentage.
Aohntrv? : Tf arsons ehffaffed in any Ui eurmugs. xl iioius. out its. mast-
- j . ... cj c ........ - i. - -ii " i .
other business were to make such inS solicitations to tne mecnanic. or
threats, - would not the" authorities operative ou his way to work, ' and at .
deal witlv them ? Bht the: saloon V&i noon-spell, and on his way home
keepers run" at large,, so far. Wewill
see what the authorities will. do., in
this case. . -. ' - Natiokai,.
For the Prohibitionists,
at eventide. 'On Saturday, when the
paid, it snatches , a; large
part of the money that' might : come
to the family and sacrifices it among
the saloon-keepers. Within three
SIR: ; As most.ol . your hnndred varfls of Sauda Street. Meth-
Dear
readers aie ; interested in the great odist 'Church, Brooklyn, it has fifty
cause ol reform ; now going . on .in four sai0ons, ; and is" plotting now for
America, viz.,-the temperance relorm, another..- Stand the saloons of this
T .1 . j.. 1. "1.., 1. - XI- 4- Z X. "U : "U-n wtTTl - , .'.. i . '
jl uesire to buiu tuai -n uasj uccu .j country side Dy side, ana, it is care-
pleasure since I have l been here . tof-fuliy estimated 'that they would reach
visit-the head quarters ol the rro- from New ,York to Chicago. For
hibition party , in the United - States, lurd, mai-ch, says the rum power, and
where 1 heard reports irom. neany tate possession of the American na
every one -of the 2 7 assembly districts, tion.Z)r.. Talmage.
composed of. the county and, city ot
as, Prohibitionists say Get ; Consti- New York. ' These: reports were"; in
V mom flotfo-rinrr . Shmvino" what
"" o , ..-;, -i-i.-p1i4. TTin
on 'olomont 15 vicmff 11H hfll'ft m T.mSl . -
- i. m. c ,i;T, niy, Saturday Oct. 2ndl J. A. Gray,
errant- 'Pitv - CT rtVPT OT1A TTI1 1 llOn I J' . -. '
People, ,vith. nearly'ten thousand was called to the chair and af:
cause her husband has by strong drink Lof purity and home will vanish ftVJof
iben turned into a demoniac. ; The jnni' sight, linman arms,; Imman pens,, hti-
partisan plan -doesn't tell what to; do.
The result is the " union . is broken
right there at the 'ono, cxiticaU place,
Non-nartisans try to obviate V the
. x . '-.,' , .'
defect by sajring "vote for men: on
either ticket who are opposed to' the
saloon.": But that is practicable only
in exceptional cases." ,Howr is every
body who goes tq the polish rich or
poor, lettered, and unlettered,-gomg
to Know, as ne--yumiJureH uie - two
tiQkts. TOSt what men-can be trusted
ta orinose the saloon ? - The; result
must be a pulling in different direc
tions, one manscratching one name,
hanother scratching another name, and
the ballots cast by the' foes of the
sivloaaviU twro otit as varied as the
tutivnal Amendment and then ioeJve.
iegun.teith it." - ' ' .
f" When the enforcing period," or third
stage, shall have been reached, the
real tng of war -.w ill come, as the ef
fecting force must then do-its .work,
with the aid of the machinery, it may
have constructed. It will be -neces
sary to "maintain prohibitory -provi-sions
rigidly until a, new generation
rises, educated to the policy of Prohi
bition ; and protected r in habits of
sobriety. ;By this timetheantagoniz
ing element, or opposing force in the
struggle will largely c have passed
away. - ' .
Non-partisan methods must prove
. For The prohibitionist.
The Prohibitionist j . of Jamestown
ter: making some very
interesting
vwvr rrrrrr ofirQ On :.hf wn.ll - OT
their LllI find inscriptions, in part; and appropreate remarks introduced
as follows : : "Prohibition is our high
woefully lame in theaecdnd stage, andJln my remarks L endeavored , to en
almost useless m the third. Distinct
party action is a wise, lull ana com
prehenive forecast of the work; from
the beginning to the end, founded on
the -philosophy of- human action,
logically: governmental in method, (that the .money
avowlms: an tne inconsistencies oi
Profi Moore, Presedent of New, Gar-
ucu ' vyiicgc, nuu caimti miucu nut-
audience for 30.. minutes in a logical
and masterly speech. Prof. Moore is
ambition, because it is of God. yro-.
hibition ; produces peace, -." plenty,
nnlUiool niiTitTT1 'v.TTia aooin.l Tlasa IS
x , -..!. nno-nt tha lactrt i n rr ai n atnra rT Nnrrh
a social sorrow:-:; Prohibitionists, the """ . s--
political party " of progress," purity,
rfl,triotism " .The , meeting was one
JL .. .
for the transaction of-: business, so
therewas no set speech. I was Jn
trod need bv an old friend," .who said,
Here is a friend from North Carolina.-
courage them in this'great work; and
I trust I have not -made such . repre
sentatiohs to them as. -I shall ; be
ashamed - of. after, the Noyember
election. : I endeavored to show them
they had expended
in sending among us such - lecturers
Carolina and is ope of- the deepest
thinkers andv . clearest reasoners in
the state; He said, both "the -old
parties are . liquor parties, and that'
he did not see how he could vote
for either without having-his fingers
in the liquor traffic. Every one was
delighted with his' speech. Prof.
Hobbs also made jsorae pointed argu
ments in four of the Prohibition
movement: Several others made short
and sterring speeches. A' club of 25
nor "organized.- "
- J. A. Gbay, Esq. Chairman